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Some gross stuff!

Rhodanide - 30-3-2016 at 09:38

Yuck. SO!
I was preparing Diiodoacetylene, going on Axt's preparation page.
It worked, but: it smelled T E R R I B L E!!!
The only thing I could compare it to would be if someone poured warm, rancid caramel/butterscotch over a dead/decaying animal. Absolutely atrocious. What WAS IT?! The smell, I mean. It made me want to throw up!

Any ideas? The Diiodoacet. itself? The HIO? Or something different?
I'd be interested if anyone else had the same thing happen to them.


~T

Magpie - 30-3-2016 at 10:22

It is interesting that you refer to butterscotch. Sauron says that diacetyl IS butterscotch.

This may or may not be relevant to your situation: butterscotch



[Edited on 30-3-2016 by Magpie]

Rhodanide - 31-3-2016 at 08:48

Quote: Originally posted by Magpie  
It is interesting that you refer to butterscotch. Sauron says that diacetyl IS butterscotch.

This may or may not be relevant to your situation: butterscotch



[Edited on 30-3-2016 by Magpie]



Hrm. Weird.

Rhodanide - 27-10-2016 at 06:47

Quote: Originally posted by Magpie  
It is interesting that you refer to butterscotch. Sauron says that diacetyl IS butterscotch.

This may or may not be relevant to your situation: butterscotch



[Edited on 30-3-2016 by Magpie]


Um, that's not what I meant. I mean DIIODOACETYLENE. [C2I2]
I know about Diacetyl, sprayable butter and all that :P :D

Rhodanide - 27-10-2016 at 11:12

Quote: Originally posted by CuReUS  
tetra,did you get a splitting headache ? :D
because according to this book,you should http://www.sciencemadness.org/library/books/the_war_gases.pd...


Uh, no.
The PDF loads in fine, but all the letters are jumbled.
My Chloropicrin does that quite well, though.

CuReUS - 28-10-2016 at 07:17

sorry I made a mistake.Dibromo acetylene gives you a headache,not diidoacetylene.But according to the book,the later smells similar to phenyl isocyanide :o which also smells absolutely horrible and even made me sick(I started having flu like symptoms a few minutes after smelling it and that night I was having vertigo:( )
Quote:
The only thing I could compare it to would be if someone poured warm, rancid caramel/butterscotch over a dead/decaying animal.

its amazing that you could compare the smell of phenyl isocyanide with an earthly smell.Everyone else says that the smell is an alien one http://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2010/05/07/thi...
http://www.sciencemadness.org/talk/viewthread.php?tid=4621